Are there Archives of Web Cultural History?

fascinating. All I really knew about was LOC’s Wayback Machine. Some specific companies do keep their own old material, but do not necessarily post it. You might check with them specifically. I’m a hoarder of information so I have a very few random bits here and there, but just of stuff of interest to me at the time, and I am not sure if it survived the transition of technology upgrades over the years.

But why just limit yourself to the web? Lots of usenet newsgroups groups were doing a lot of very odd things back then in text-only mode. In particular was one oddie that may have contributed to teen suicide—alt.suicide.holiday—and I think it still exists. for more info

I just checked on an old gem that once amused me “what constitutes a hoochie?” and it still exists! The girl who did it is long through school, probably well into her career path and probably a mother with teen children. It is still funny —sort of a play on the “what constitutes a redneck?” stuff by Ray Stevens[?]

Lots of stuff is still out there because cleaning old stuff off the servers is a laborious process, but uncatalogued. You need to have the key [an address]

This “methods” reference is from the old alt.suicide.holiday newsgroup

Another old newsgroup is alt.folklore.urban which spawned snopes.com [David Mikkelson, its founder was a regular contributor] and it seems to have morphed into a new life on Google groups.

There’s Reocities, an effort to preserve the glory days of Web 1.0 as represented by Yahoo!‘s Geocities.